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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Apology"”.
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Restorative Justice, Apology, Restitution, and Forgiveness
Operating from a retributive approach, the current criminal justice system (CJS) often does not appear to value the well-being of victims. As an alternative approach, restorative justice values the well-being of victims and provides opportunities that can foster forgiveness compared to a …
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The Australian Apology in Fiction: Gail Jones's Sorry
My dissertation focuses on Sorry, a novel by the Australian academic and writer Gail Jones. The novel centres on the friendship between an Aboriginal girl, Mary, and a white girl, Perdita, and hints at an ideal of reconciliation. It is thus against the background of the Australian Reconciliation …
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The rhetorical dimension of an apology for slavery.
… the theoretical and practical applications of an apology for American slavery. It will focus upon former Representative Tony Hall's 1997 and 2000 request for a congressional apology for slavery. The rhetorical dimensions of the sociopolitical apology in regard to American slavery process will be …
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A Japan-United States comparison of apology styles
… reaction to, situations that potentially require apology. Two hundred U.S. and 181 Japanese college students completed a questionnaire in which each was asked to: (a) rate the victim's and the offender's initial reactions to the situation, (b) produce a message indicating what the offender would …
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Babel's Apology: Religious Nostalgia and Literary Engagement with the Postsecular Age
Postsecularism has recently become a popular field of inquiry in literary criticism, but literary critics frequently overlook religious writers and texts in their studies. This dissertation argues that religious works share many similar traits with the established canon of postsecular literature …
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Unsettling Revitalization in Toronto: The Fantasy and Apology of the Settler City
… fantasy is related to, and in tension with, the apology, which I argue is also revealed in urban revitalization and works to foreshadow the search for state-sponsored reconciliation in the present day. The apology represents the way in which urban revitalization makes insincere attempts to …
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The Pragmatics of Apology Speech Act Behaviour in Iraqi Arabic and English
… is concerned with examining the speech act of apology by Iraqi Arabic native speakers (IANs) and Iraqi English foreign language learners (EFLL). It aims at examining the strategies and functions of apologies produced by two groups of participating speakers as well as their perceptions of …
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Examing the effects of apology and compensation on participants' perceptions of exonerees.
… of social motivation, we investigated whether apology or compensation influenced perceptions of exonerees. Participants read vignettes detailing the release of an exoneree with a video component added in the second study. Study One manipulated exoneree sex as well as the presence of …
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Realizations of Two Speech Acts of Heritage Learners of Korean: Request and Apology Strategies
… realizations of two speech acts, request and apology, of heritage learners of Korean in comparison with those of Korean native speakers. Twenty native speakers of Korean and twenty Korean- Americans who speak Korean as a second language participated in the study. They were undergraduate and …
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Apology behavior: A comparison between native speakers of American English and Chinese English learners
… appropriate strategies. However, studies on the apology behavior have been conducted so far for the most part with the native speakers of western languages and cultures. No systematic study has been done with native speakers of Chinese. The present study is motivated by a series of studies done …
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Observer Retaliation: How Apology Components Affect Observing Customers' Negative Word-of-Mouth and Patronage Intentions
An apology is a standard expression often articulated by someone who has wronged another. Prior service failure and recovery literature has explored the impact uncivil acts and subsequent recovery efforts in a service environment, although this research has been focused on the involved customer’s …
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The Crucible of History:How Apology and Reconciliation Created Modern Conceptions of the Salem Witch Trials
<p>For centuries, historians, authors, and amateur enthusiasts alike have been mesmerized by the Salem witch trials. Most of the literature focuses on the trials themselves and takes one of three approaches: anthropological; sociological; or conspiratorial. Recently Gretchen Adams, professor of …
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Apology : a content analysis of public school district apologies in race-related incidents and crises.
… fault, in a crisis of reputation, a statement of apology can be one of a few ways to atone for the incident. Using the Situational Crisis Communication Theory, this research will work to analyze the content of public apologies and statements from 32 public school districts which have faced …
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The speech act of apology : a linguistic exploration of politeness orientation in British and Jordanian culture
Through an investigation of the realisation patterns of apologies in British English and Jordanian Arabic, this study presents an account of politeness phenomena in Jordanian culture as compared to British culture. A comparison is thus made between the British conceptualisation of the pragmatic …
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Toward a rhetoric of symbolic reparations : overlapping genres in George W. Bush's apology for slavery.
… for slaves during America's slave period. This apology contains both a mythic and a mundane frame for understanding the crime and sin of slavery, clearly separated by Bush's language choices. Examining both frames allows the best understanding of what Bush attempted to accomplish, displacing …
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Defending the Messiah in the Islamic Milieu: A Critical Analysis and Translation of the Earliest Arabic-Christian Apology
How did Christians living under the hegemony of the Muslims respond to the rise of Islam? This dissertation offers the first complete English translation and textual analysis of the earliest Arabic-Christian apologetic work to engage Islam. Chapter 1 serves as a compass for the work, outlining the …
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The Role of Just Desserts, Deterrence, and an Apology in Recommending Punishment for Violations of HIV Non-Disclosure Laws
… punishment motivations. Additionally, offender apology was investigated as a potential moderator of the effects of retribution on punishment. A 2 (Just Deserts) X 2 (Deterrence) X 2 (Apology) ANOVA design was used with recommendations for a prison sentence and financial fine as the dependent …
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